Zimbabwe Medical
Project
Spring 2015
ROTARY CLUB OF KNOXVILLE
ROTARY FOUNDATION OF
KNOXVILLE
In partnership with the Rotary Foundation of Knoxville,
the Rotary Club of Knoxville University of Tennessee
Trauma Division, the American College of Surgeons and
ATLS South Africa a team of doctors and nurses from
the US and South Africa departed Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on
Saturday 14th Feb 2015. They successfully completed 3
separate Advanced Trauma Life Support Training Courses
for ER (Casualty) nurses and doctors over a two week
period. The ATLS and ATCN Courses were chosen to
inaugurate the new St Philips Nursing School in Southern
Zimbabwe.
Highlights of the Trauma
Partnership
32 Zimbabwean nurses and 16
doctors underwent intensive
training over two weeks
A Course Director from
Zimbabwe and 6 fully
accredited Zimbabwean
Instructors taught the final
ATCN Course
These were the first ATCN
Courses ever taught in Africa
This is the first ATLS overseas
partnership sponsored by the
American College of Surgeons
The teaching was funded by a
Vocational Training Team
Global Grant from the Rotary
Foundation, the World
The Trauma Teaching team was led by Prof Dr
Blaine Enderson and Dr Lou Smith of the
University of Tennessee Trauma Division and
spearheaded by and partnered by ATLS South
Africa Instructors Dr Andrew Baker FCS (Orth) MBChB, FCS (Orth) (ATLS Europe) Dr George Oosthuizen
MBChB ( Chief of Metropolitan Trauma Services, Pietermaritzburg, Kwa Zulu Natal and President of
Trauma Society of South Africa) Dr Liesl Baker MBChB, FCA and Dr Ian Stead. MB ChB, FC(Orth). UT
Trauma Teaching Specialists Niki Rasnake, RN ,Deb Tuggle, RN, and Theresa Day, RN, completed the
international team The team was responsible for teaching the Advanced Trauma Care Nursing (ATCN) to 32
nurses and the Advanced Trauma Life Support Course (ATLS) to 16 doctors from hospitals and clinics from all
over Zimbabwe (see page 6)
The first class of ATLS/ATCN students and instructors outside
St Philips
From the initial teaching course of 16 nursing trauma students a total of nine nurses were selected to the
Instructors Course over two days. On completion of the Instructor Course, a Zimbabwean senior Critical
Care Nurse, Sr Sue Samboko, was appointed as Trainee Director and she and 6 other new Trainee Instructors
taught a monitored final two day ATCN Course of a second class of 16 additional Trauma nurses to achieve
full International Accreditation. The Director, Sr Samboko and the five Instructors now are scheduled to
teach their first independent ATCN Course to Zimbabweans in May 2015 in the new St Philips Nursing School.
Those ATLS and ATCN trainees return to their hospitals armed with state of the art knowledge in treating the
Trauma patient.
University of Tennessee Trauma Division Teaches the
first ever Advanced Trauma Care Nursing in Africa
At a combined meeting of the members of the
three Bulawayo Rotary Clubs and Rotary Club
of Knoxville representatives President , Dr Roy
King and Dr Phil Mitchell presented a summary
of the VTT Trauma Training Project at a lunch
held at the historic Bulawayo Club.
Community Service committee
and numerous donors and
friends
In this issue:
First Advanced Trauma Nurse
Training in Central Africa
1
Pictures from the Course
2
Broadband for St Philips
UT College of Nursing
Pathology Teaching at NUST
3
Zimbabwe Map of Trauma
Trainees
4
Zimkids Partnership
Acknowledgements
Dr King and Dr Mitchell emphasized that the
success of the Project depended on a human chain
of hundreds of essential links... US and Zim
Rotary Clubs and their members, cooperating
medical organizations the University of
Tennessee Medical Center Trauma Division,
ATCN and ATLS USA, ATLS South Africa,
American College of Surgeons, Zimbabwe
Medical Project and the many individuals who
recognized the importance of the Project and
stepped forward to help.
5,6
The UT Trauma Team Nurses (Niki, Deb and Theresa), UT College
Prof. Dr Blaine Enderson, Trauma Leader, Dr Roy King President
Knoxville Rotary Club and Sandy Whitehead of Rotary Club of Bulawayo South Address the first class of Trauma Students at the beginning of the
course.
of Nursing Team (Karen and Lynn) and Sr’s Samboko Mandhiza
and Sr Moyo present Sr Maureen Jamieson with a plaque to honor
her vision and hard work in establishing St Philip’s Nursing School
Dr Roy King (who also was Rotary leader for
the Trauma Team) gave a comprehensive
series of Undergraduate Pathology Lectures to
the 3rd Year Medical Students at the School of
Medicine at NUST. Organized by the Dean of
the School of Medicine, Dr Noma Ndiweni
and Dr Roger Chigangacha.,Dr King coordinated the
lecture series for the students and was assisted in the
second week by Dr Judy Whitaker (ex Townsend
High School and Bulawayo) from Cape Town.
Knoxville Pathologist, Dr Neil Coleman, (top right)
Dr King and Dr Whitaker take note
at Dr Coleman’s lecture
Dr Roy King with the third year class of NUST medical students
The 2015 Trauma Teaching Team L to R Blaine Enderson, Lou Smith, Paul Parris, Phil Mitchell, Deb Tuggle, Niki
Rasnake, Theresa Day, Amy Madigan, Lynn Blackburn,
Karen Lasater, Roy King
The ATLS South Africa Team (Liesl, Andrew, George and Ian)
celebrate after conducting the first ATLS Course held in Central Africa
Nic Rudnick, ex -Bulawayo and Founder and CEO of Liquid Telecom, London (http://liquidtelecom.com/)
generously stepped forward to donate fiberoptic broadband access to St Philips Nursing School and the Mater Dei
Hospital. Because of his donation the Trauma Teaching Team was able to complete direct video conferenced
interactive lectures from ATCN International Chair, Richard Henn RN in Arizona and University of Tennessee ATLS Instructor Dr Stephen Pacifico MD. This was the first time this form of teaching had been used in Zimbabwe and opens the way for future myriad teaching possibilities in Central Africa. During the time the Trauma Team
was in Bulawayo Dr Mark Dixon, and Dr Cynthia Makosa of Bulawayo delivered lectures on the state of Cervical Cancer and HIV in Central Africa to
University of Tennessee Departments of Medicine, Obstetrics, and Family Practice via direct interactive videoconferencing organized by UT Chief
of Medicine Dr Mark Rasnake.
The St Philip’s Nursing Staff named the
Nic Rudnick Lecture Room at St Philip’s
Nursing School to acknowledge his help.
Asst Prof, Karen Lasater (International Coordinator ) and Clinical
Instructor, Lynn Blackburn, , University of Tennessee College of
Nursing accompanied the Trauma Teaching Team. Their mission was
one of establishing relationships with the NUST, Mater dei Hospital
and UBH teaching staff and teaching. Karen was able to give didactic
lectures in the HINARI electronic library access, and to introduce a cataloguing system for the many hundreds of nursing and medical textbooks.
Nurses in Bulawayo now have access to “Librarything” a web based software program that allows nurses to search for available textbooks in the new
St Philips Nursing library. (Thanks also go to Martha Earl at UTMCK )
Lynn gave extensive lectures to the NUST Masters Midwifery program and organized videoconferencing from UT CON to the Midwifery class.
Both Lynn and Karen participated in the the two day seminar on Women’s Breast Health given by Dr Jenny Edge and Lieske Wegelin from Cape
Town to 120 nurses and organized by Sr Maureen Jamieson. Thanks to Dean Vickie Niederhauser for her help in facilitating this project.
University of Tennessee College of
Nursing Teaching Team to Zimbabwe
Theresa Day
( UTMCK Trauma) and Karen
Lasater (UT
College of Nursing wait for the
Bulawayo flight
Lynn Blackburn (UT
College of Nursing and
Deb Tuggle UTMCK
Trauma
As part of the Memorandum of Understanding
between the Zimbabwe Medical Project and
the National University of Science and Technology, Dr Roy King (who also was Rotary
leader for the Trauma Team) gave a comprehensive series of Undergraduate Pathology Lectures to the 3rd Year Medical Students. Organized by the Dean of the School of Medicine, Dr
Noma Ndiweni and Dr Roger Chigangacha. Dr
King coordinated the lecture series for the students and was assisted in the second
week by Dr Judy Whitaker (ex Townsend High School and Bulawayo) from Cape
Town.
Knoxville Pathologist, Dr Neil Coleman, gave a live
interactive lecture to the NUST medical students on
Cardiac Pathology using, for the first time,
web based video conferencing given live from Knoxville
Tennessee to the Bulawayo campus. (Left)
1 RN ATCN Binga
5 MD’s ATLS
4 RNs ATCN
I MD ATLS
I RN ATCN
Mat North
Location in Zimbabwe of Nurses
(RN’s) and Doctors (MD’s) who
1 RN ATCN
1 RN ATCN
1 RN ATCN Mberengwa
11 MD’s ATLS
14 RN’s ATCN
1 RN ATCN Gwanda
underwent training in ATCN and
ATLS
1 RN ATCN
1 RN ATCN
Beitbridge
As part of an ongoing
relationship between
Books for Africa and the
Zimbabwe Medical Project we used excess container capacity to ship one thousand school
books, divided by grades, for the Zimkids Orphan Trust library in Pumula township. Amy Madigan had the privilege of seeing Tinashe and Philip
interacting with the kids at Zimkids and to see the new additions they
have added to the
school.
The memorial to Adrian Suskin at Zimkids
Library staff cataloguing the Books for Africa
Bob Marquis working to pack the books from
Books for Africa in Knoxville
Our Individual Volunteers and Donors…
United States
Knoxville
Rotary Club of Knoxville members and World
Community Service Committee members.
Townes Osborn
Neil Coleman (thanks Neil for the video conferenced Pathology lecture from Knoxville to
the NUST Medical Students)
Bo Croley
Paul Kedrow
Bob Samples,
Brown Wright,
J Mark Webb,
Doug McKamey,
Bill Hurt.
Frank Rothermel
Bruce Williamson
US Military SFC David Murray and CPT
Ramon Gomez.
Erma Morgan and her staff at Fort Sanders
West Out Patient Surgery
Volunteer Moving and the FSW team led by
Mike Marshall
Container loading volunteers Townes Osborn, Elisa King, Roy King Sandy Martin Bob
Marquis, Neil Coleman Jim Holleman
(Volunteer Rotary Club), Allen Pannell and
Pat Rutenberg,
Rotaract members Bill Clayton, Katie Conrad and Dennis Stepp, plus Knoxville lawyer
Jason Murphy and Reagan Murphy and
Melissa Childs
Knoxville physicians Dr Joe De Fiore, Dr Eric
Bell, Dr Bill Tyler, Dr Kent Farris and Dr Bob
Madigan, Dr Robert Ivy, Dr Tom Sullivan, Dr
Chris Testerman, Frank and Sheila White
Dean Vickie Niederhauser, Univ of Tenn
College of NursingWebb Head Coach David
Meske and Coaches Jay Moore, Kevin Catlett, Randy Carroll, Robby Collier with the
Webb High School Football players Davis
Delozier, Riley Wofford, Brody Leonard,
Stone Cummins, Christopher Stephens,
Hunter Green, Conner Courtney, Myles Rasnick, Juwann Jefferson, Conrad Jones, Sam
Werner, Alec Vetrano, Elliott
Headden,Tucker Riddick, Stokes Needham,
Andrew Craig, Jack Nadand, Wrinn Alexander, Dean Miniard
Knoxville News Sentinel’s Paul Efird and
Lance Coleman The Zsa Zsa Team Townes
Osborn, Whitney Dawson, Channing Dawson, Sandy Martin, Leslie Baugues, Jennifer
Sepaniak, Kathryn Johnson, Allen Pannell,
Jim Holleman, Bob Marquis, Breese Johnson
and David Martin.
United States, Knoxville (cont)
UTMCK : Dr Stephen Pacifico MD,
Dr Mark Rasnake MD, AV Dept : Pam
Tipton, Tracey Whitt and the Knoxville
families of our volunteers who kept the
home fires burning in bitterly cold conditions whilst we were away
Evanston, Il
Jasmine Alkhatib ACS
Flagstaff, Az
Richard Henn RN SCN
Seattle, Wa
Mike Glenn RN SCN
United Kingdom
South Africa
London
Nic Rudnick
South Africa
Durban
Dr Andrew Baker MB ChB
Dr Liesl Baker MB ChB
Dr Ian Stead MB ChB
Di Leverone-Baker
Pietermaritzburg
Dr George Oosthuizen MB ChB
Zimbabwe
Bulawayo
Rotary Club of Bulawayo South
Alvord Mabena, Sandy Whitehead, Jean
Whiley, John Sullivan, Jackson Munye, Shep
Ndlovu, Denis Paul, Roger Russell, Lesley
Williams, Matilda Muzvondiwa, Priscilla
Mabena, Dingi Dhlamini, Piet te Velde,
Angelina Phiri , Brian Meikle, Buhle Francis,
Busani Bafana, Delay Dube, Everson
Ndlovu, Gilbert Simela, Lesley, MarieHelene, Mercy Moyo, Mpumelelo
Mkhwananzi, Paul McCay, Peter Edmeades,
Richard Arrowsmith, Rose Moyo, Terry Mafu, Thandi Takawira, Thembi Muzvagwa and
Chiku
MDH: Sr Maureen Jamieson
Adolf Macheka MBChB
Sr Samboko
Sr Mandhizwa
Gavin Stephens
ZMP Board Members:
Calgary
Dr Noma Ndiweni PhD
Amy Madigan JD
Mark Dixon FRCP
Dave Coltart JD
Dr John Kortbeek FCS
Brendan and Ferrel Mitchell
Canada
Our Corporate friends and donors…
Nic Rudnick CEO of Liquid Telecom London stepped forward to organize direct fiber optic broadband access to the St
Philip’s Nursing School. Completed in record time to be available for the Trauma Teaching Teams arrival our thanks to
him and to the help of Ilan Elkaim. Congratulations as well to Richard Henn RN Society of Trauma Nurses and Dr
Stephen Pacifico of UT Medical Center who completed the first video conferenced Trauma lectures to Africa
Our grateful thanks to Pete DeBusk, Tracy Edmundson and Johhny Hibbet, of the DeRoyal Industries family
that donated so generously toward hospital and orthopedic supplies for the hospitals and clinics in Southern Zimbabwe. DeRoyal Industries collected and delivered pallets containing 165 pre-packaged surgical supply kits, and
over 1500 orthopedic splints slings and orthopedic support items continuing a long tradition of philanthropic support by their company. Thanks also to Bob Marquist and Dick Gillespie for their help.
Knoxville Rotary Club member, and CEO of A and W Supply, Rob Johnson donated over thirty items for the
school and library including desks, bookcases, chairs, filing cabinets and dry erase boards,
Don Hasson, Knoxville Rotary Club member donated the use of his warehouse at Southern Kitchen for the
storing and packing of the 1100 cubic feet of educational and medical supplies….giving us the an invaluable capacity to spend the time to pack efficiently and safely. Thanks also to Karen Taylor for her help and support
University of Tennessee College of Nursing Faculty and members of the Zimbabwe Nursing Teaching
Team, Lynn Andersen, Karen Lasater and with the support of Dean Victoria Niederhauser collected over
240 nursing textbooks from the College of Nursing students and Faculty to give a great start to the library at the
Many thanks to Dr Ken Bell, Joe De Fiore and Teresa Copeland of Knoxville Orthopaedic Clinic and OrthoTennessee who organized donations of orthopedic textbooks
and orthopedic medical supplies from their physicians, nurses and clinics at Maryville Orthopaedic Clinic, University Orthopaedic Surgeons and Orthopedic Surgeons of Oak
University of Tennessee Medical Center helped with supplies for the Trauma Teaching Team members Niki
Rasnake, Debi Tuggle and Theresa Day who will be teaching both the Advanced Trauma Life Support
Course to doctors and the Advanced Trauma Care Nursing Course with 12 Fully accredited ATCN Instructors. a Course Director and 30 new ATCN Certified ER nurses as part of the inauguration of the new nursing
school
Jasmine Alkhatib with The American College of Surgeons and Operation Giving Back helped supply student course
manuals, X ray sets and teaching aids for the ATLS and ATCN Courses. Richard Henn and Mike Glenn with the Society of
Trauma Nurses went out their way to help us get official approval and support for the project, and ATLS Student manuals.
Our thanks, once again, go to Keith and Su Holshausen of Lazy Lizard Travel (http://lazylizardtravel.com) for
the invaluable donation of their time and expertise in making the involved travel arrangements and bookings for
our Zimbabwe medical teaching and clinical teams
Randy Fields with Messer Construction contributed 6 projection, pull down slide screens for the lecture
rooms….thanks to Doug Lawyer for taking the initiative to organize this! These are now in St Philips !
The Zimbabwe Medical Project (http://www.zimproject.org)
donated $2500 to the Rotary Foundation of Knoxville to help fund
the Education Project. Books for Africa
(http:www.booksforafrica.org) contributed over one thousand
children’s textbooks for distribution by the Rotary Zsa Zsa Team, led by Townes Osborn, to Zimkids in Bulawayo. The Osborn Rotary Team followed
the medical team to Bulawayo in Feb 2015.
The Zimbabwe Medical Project is a 501(c)(3) public charity, qualified by the IRS to receive tax deductible gifts, transfers and bequests
http://www.zimproject.org